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Merchant Navy Commemorative Theme Project

Ottawa, ON

During the Second World War, a total of 25,343 merchant ships, with 164,783,921 tons of cargo on-board, sailed from North America to Britain. However, the true cost of the war at sea was in human lives lost in defence of freedom - the Canadian Merchant Navy alone lost one seafarer in eight, out of the 12,000 that faithfully served their country.